No war but class war.

And yes - racism is deliberately encouraged by the wealthy few in order to keep the lower class at each othert throats.

It’s a very simple dynamic really. People look around and recognize that their societies are fucked up. Then they look for somebody to blame.

And there really is somebody to blame. In virtually all cases, the society has been fucked up both by and for the ruling class.

But of course the ruling class doesn’t want anyone else to see that (and in many cases are so irrational themselves that they won’t or can’t see it), so they find somebody else to point to, to distract our attention from them.

And race is a particularly easy thing to point to, since it’s a visible distinction.